Blessed Virgin Mary-HD Video

Holy Mary Mother of God

An appearance of an image of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the window of the Sime Darby Medical Centre (Subang Jaya Medical Centre- SJMC) have many Catholics visiting and witnessing this event. It was reported that the seventh floor housed the Cancer Ward in this hospital.
This HD video shows the location and the image. A 12-second time lapse video (shot with the Panasonic HDC TM300) was made to try to see any changes on the image for the last 90 minutes and the High Bit Rate video was shot using the Panasonic Lumix GH2.

Skater Dolly Video Clip

Smooth Operator

Kindly view the HD video clip below to see the panning/trucking effect used when my camera was mounted on a DIY skater dolly. It was then edited on Sony Vegas HD software.
A Leica macro lens was fixed onto the Lumix GH2 camera to shoot on the 24p cinema mode.

C&C most appreciated.

Macro Shots

How close can we get?

Was photographing using both the Rollei and the Leica Macro lenses for real close up shots. The results were amazing as sharpness and color reproduction from these top quality lens were expected. Shot both in JPEG and RAW.

This highly magnified shot of a red ball point pen was taken with a bellow extension set using an old lens from my old SLR camera.

This two shots of wild flowers (below) were taken with the Leica DG Macro-Elmarit 45mm f/2.8 ASPH macro lens (micro 4/3 format)

A wild fern and a wild flower taken in Genting Highlands
With a special adaptor, the lens fitted to the micro four-third camera perfectly.

Here is some pictures taken with the Leica macro lens.

Malaysian Passion Fruit in close up.

A beautiful old 'classic' lens

Eat & Shake!

Chinese Pond Heron
Was driving home one afternoon and spotted a migrant in full breeding plumage.

Grabbed my Panasonic Lumix GH2, changed its lens to the 200mm TeleZoom, selected ETC 'on' and shot the bird. Thanks to James and Bitty of Photo Malaysia who id-ed this heron double quick as the usual color and pattern are not the same normally. Even the bill is in two colors!

Was in time for its quick meal and a 'shake' afterwards.

Enjoy the video here.

Ultra Macro

Coming Up Just received an adaptor to fit up my old Bellow Unit (Minolta) to my Lumix GH2. This is the Micro Four Thirds to MD lens.

Tested and shot some ultra-macro HD Videos and on Cinema 24p Mode. This is the set up.

The bellow unit have twin macro focusing feature on its slide-rail.

Adaptor

Saved A Lens The adaptor for my new GH2 have arrived. It allows me to use one of my old 35mm SLR lenses, the Rollei HFT Planar 50mm f/1.8, to the Micro Four Third camera. Have tested it today. Typical of German lenses, the first few shots were excellent. The stills were extremely sharp but slightly over exposed. I will try it with a (ND) neutral density filter. Later, would be doing a few HD Videos trials. The vintage Rollei lens. This QBM (Quick Bayonet Mount) to m4/3 fitted perfectly. Naturally as with old SLR lenses, the aperture and focus would strictly be on manual selection. Do not forget to select "shoot without lens" on the camera setting. The Panasonic Lumix GH2 with the Rollei lens